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Banner of the Khyati Hospital aesculapian campy hanging astatine the Mahadev temple successful Borisana village. (Express photograph by Brendan Dabhi)
On the time his remand with Vastrapur constabulary was expected to end, Dr Prashant Vazirani, the lone accused to person been arrested pursuing the decease of 2 PMJAY beneficiaries astatine Khyati Multispeciality Hospital, was sent to four-day remand of the Detection of Crime Branch (DCB) of Ahmedabad Police connected Thursday.
Dr Vazirani, the visiting cardiologist astatine Khyati Multispeciality Hospital, is accused of performing unnecessary angioplasty surgeries connected seven PMJAY beneficiaries from Borisana village of Kadi successful Mehsana without cause, and without informed consent from them oregon their kin, with the intent of making an amerciable summation and cheating the authorities authorities arsenic good arsenic the families of the patients.
Dr Vazirani, who owns his ain session successful Ahmedabad, was arrested connected November 13, conscionable hours aft 3 FIRs were filed successful this lawsuit against him and 4 owners of Ahmedabad Bariatrics and Cosmetics Pvt Ltd, the holding institution of Khyati Hospital.
He was arrested by Vastrapur constabulary and, connected November 14, presented successful court, which sent him to 7 days of constabulary custody.
However, connected November 18, the full lawsuit was transferred from Vastrapur constabulary to the Crime Branch with the second seeking much clip to interrogate Dr Vazirani. A connection by the Crime Branch connected Thursday said the tribunal had granted it 4 days’ remand of Dr Vazirani.
Meanwhile, DCP (Crime) Ajit Rajian said that bottles of liquor had been seized from the homes of Chairman Kartik Jasu Patel and Director Chirag Rajput successful usurpation of the state’s Prohibition Act. Separate cases are apt to beryllium filed against them successful this respect adjacent arsenic each the 4 absconding accused, including Rajshree Pradeep Kothari and Dr Sanjay Mulji Patolia, remained retired of the scope of the constabulary for the eighth time aft filing of the FIRs.
Further, a connection from the Crime Branch said that a squad of cardiologists appointed by the authorities authorities volition soon springiness its study connected whether the angiography and angioplasty surgeries carried retired connected patients nether PMJAY were required oregon not. It further stated that probe was besides being carried retired into aesculapian records of patients from 13 different villages wherever angiographies were conducted by Khyati Hospital.
Apart from issuing Look Out Circulars (LOCs) against the 4 absconding accused, the Crime Branch connected Thursday announced that it had sent retired teams to apprehend CEO Rahul Jain and Marketing Manager Milind Patel successful this case. The Crime Branch had named them arsenic suspects successful an earlier connection connected Wednesday.
CCTV footage of the infirmary is besides being checked to ascertain if different radical were besides progressive successful the racket.
Meanwhile, the Crime Branch has frozen the slope accounts of each 5 existent accused successful the lawsuit and is collecting accusation regarding their movable and immovable properties.
The 5 accused were booked successful 3 FIRs, 1 by the authorities authorities and 2 by the families of the deceased, for culpable homicide, attempted culpable homicide, forgery, cheating and transgression conspiracy, for allegedly performing unnecessary angioplasty surgeries connected 2 patients — Mahesh Girdhar Barot (52) and Nagar Moti Senma (75) — who aboriginal mislaid their lives owed to alleged negligence successful post- operative care.
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